# My bag. The dimensions on the inside seem to be five times larger than the exterior dimensions suggest, it seems to expand indefinitely and it never gets too heavy. I suspect it's a magic bag. I picked it up for twenty bucks from a run-out store in Market City expecting it to last only a month, and so far it's survived nearly three years of heavy-duty daily use and the leather is getting better with age. Colour me impressed.
# My wallet. An indulgence from Alannah Hill a year or so back, mostly purchased because it's such a pretty deep raspberry red and, to be honest, I need a brightly coloured wallet so I can see it in my gaping cavern of a bag. Another leather good that seems to hold an indefinite amount of junk. I recently cleaned out three months worth of ATM receipts, bus tickets, coffee cards and spare change under a denomination of $.20 and now it feels incredibly empty.
# 180g Ipod video (currently dosed up with episodes of CSI so I can admire my Secret TV Husband during my commute on the monorail), my house keys on an Australian Navy lanyard, a compact of face powder and a retractable powder brush in a cute pink metal cannister. One of my most treasured possessions is just hidden under a key in that picture - a tiny brass propeller that His Nibs made for me back when we first started dating. He turned it on a lathe from a solid block of brass, didn't cast it from a mold or anything. He's unbelievably clever with his hands.
# Mints and emergency chocolate. I've taken to buying mints in flavours that I know most people loathe - spearmint, orange mint, passionfruit, etc - because it's the only way that my stash of mints isn't depleted by everyone else at work. Everyone else is too cheap or lazy to buy their own supply, ergo I buy ones that they won't touch.
# The world's most useless mobile phone/PDA (I'll never buy an iPAQ ever again. You hear me HP? NEVER.), a beaten-up Nintendo DS featuring my horrible addiction to Animal Crossing Wild World, a decent handful of pens aquired from places various and my Australian Navy security access card.
# Second choice sunglasses (my favourite old black Wayfarers appear to have been either stolen out of my bag at work or His Nibs accidentally threw them out last time he purged the house), shabby old MAC make-up bag and my faithful Polaroid classic.
# Two Laura Mercier lip stains that I regret purchasing, a lip balm from work and a tinted Dr Pepper balm that [info]iibnf got for me, $2.05 in loose change and a well-read copy of Cassell's Dictionary of Word & Phrase Origins.
(I cheated this and reposted this from when it was originally posted to the inmybag lj community.
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i feel this girls hair is gonna take me 2 hours to blow!!!!
